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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Princeton is trying to ride a high horse, but even their president acknowledges that a school can’t win a direct confrontation with the Trump Administration. So, Princeton is trying to stand in a mythical middle where schools push back in theory, but when the Administration fixates on them, they cave. It’s unclear that that’s a viable strategy.

Vanderbilt and WashU not only acknowledge the current political reality but place some philosophical and operational framework around it. It’s fine for a school’s scholars to take a mix of positions, but why should the university itself align with some, but not all of those positions? Why not stand for the right of professors from a variety of perspectives to share their views?

I am liberal and sometimes progressive, but one thing the Republicans have captured is that when woke becomes an ideology, it behaves similarly to other ideologies, namely it seeks to exclude other viewpoints. Universities should be about pursuing truth in all its forms. [/quote]

I'd be careful if I were you.  I used to be a liberal/progressive and I have become pretty conservative on many social issues as a result of holding the sort of opinion you espouse here.[/quote]

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